What kind of processing is survival processing?
Words judged for their relevance in a survival context are remembered better than words processed in non-survival contexts. This phenomenon is known as the survival processing effect. Recently, inconsistent results were reported on whether the size of the survival processing effect is affected by co...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1228 - 1244 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=119139584&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 119139584 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2016 vid: 44 iid: 8 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 119139584 10.3758/s13421-016-0634-7 ppf: 1228 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 749KB tig: atl: What kind of processing is survival processing? aug: au: Kroneisen, Meike Rummel, Jan Erdfelder, Edgar affil: Department of Psychology , University of Koblenz-Landau , Fortstraße 7 76829 Landau Germany Department of Psychology , Heidelberg University , Hauptstrasse 47-51 69117 Heidelberg Germany Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences , University of Mannheim , Schloss, Ehrenhof-Ost 68131 Mannheim Germany su: Memory Task performance Executive function Experimental design Short-term memory Survival sug: subj: Memory Task performance Executive function Experimental design Short-term memory Survival keyword: Episodic memory Evolution Survival processing effect Working memory load Episodic memory Evolution Survival processing effect Working memory load ab: Words judged for their relevance in a survival context are remembered better than words processed in non-survival contexts. This phenomenon is known as the survival processing effect. Recently, inconsistent results were reported on whether the size of the survival processing effect is affected by cognitive load. Whereas Kroneisen, Rummel, and Erdfelder (Memory 22: 92-102, 2014) observed that the survival processing effect vanishes under dual-task conditions, Stillman, Coane, Profaci, Howard, and Howard (Memory & Cognition 42: 175-185, 2014, Experiment 1) found that the size of survival processing effect is essentially unaffected by a cognitively demanding secondary task. In three experiments, we investigated the differences between these studies to achieve a better understanding of dual-task effects on the survival-processing advantage. In the first experiment, we replicated Stillman et al.'s results using their dual-task conditions combined with a sample more than twice as large as theirs. In the second experiment, we compared dual-task conditions that differed regarding how strongly the secondary task taxed (a) working memory load (maintenance of one vs. several items) and (b) processing demands (switching vs. time-sharing between tasks). A third experiment focussed on low (i.e., single-item) load under time-sharing processing conditions. Results consistently showed that the survival processing effect persisted under low load but vanished when the number of items held in working memory increased beyond one, irrespective of processing demands. Implications of these findings for explanations of the survival-processing advantage are discussed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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